32-year-old conductor Aleksandar Markovic has been chief conductor at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck since 2005/06. In the current season he is also music director of the new productions Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci, Swan Lake and Romeo et Juliette as well as the revival of Der fliegende Holländer, having celebrated a huge success conducting it’s new production in June 2007. He will also conduct concerts with the Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck; the programm includes Beethoven, Schubert, Prokofiev and Berlioz.

In his first season in Innsbruck he conducted a triumphal new production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, a revival of Nozze di Figaro and a new production of Salome, directed by Brigitte Fassbaender, Verdi’s La Traviata and Bellini’s Norma: In September 2004 he was already named music director of the Stanislaw Moniuszko Philharmonie after winning 1^st prize at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Conductor’s Competition in Katowice (Poland).

In May 2008 Aleksandar Markovic opened the Wiener Festwochen with the Wiener Symphoniker, where he already debuted in 2006. In June 2008 he will for the first time conduct the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, important debuts in 2008/09 will follow with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Nuernberg Philharmonic and the Brno Philharmonic. With the Slovak Philharmonic and Bruckner’s Symphony N° 8 he will open the season at the Stefaniensaal Graz in September 2008.

Aleksandar Markovic conducted the Deutsche Symphonieorchester Berlin, Rheinische Philharmonie, Wiener Kammerorchester, Wiener Concertverein, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Symphonieorchester St. Gallen, Belgrade Radio Orchestra and Belgrade Philharmonic, Budapest Concert Orchestra, Prague Symphony, Janacek Philharmonic, Slovenian Philharmonic, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and at the National Theatre Prague.

Apart from the classical symphonic repertoire Aleksandar Markovic is a proponent of contemporary music and conducted the world premiere of Feuerlicht, Nachtschatten by Dirk D’Ase at the Wiener Musikverein, symphonies by Karl Amadeus Hartmann and Karl Schiske as well as pieces by Lutoslawski, Ligeti, Pintscher and Tüür.

The conductor completed his studies at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien under Leopold Hager, who stated: “Aleksandar Markovic is one of the greatest talents ever to study with me.” Markovic also attended master classes with Gianluigi Gelmetti and Lothar Zagrosek at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, graduating with honours - Diploma d’onore. Aleksandar Markovic holds a scholarship from the highly renowned Herbert von Karajan Foundation Berlin.

May 2008